"Cultural Appropriation"

[bennyboy]

So what is your opinion about the Portland ladies that were shamed into closing their taco stand? It seems to me that two enterprising and resourceful ladies in Portland managed to replicate the traditional recipe for tortillas by asking questions and careful observation, even if it did involve snooping around. So what were they supposed to do? Pay royalties? To whom? And with whom could they have negotiated?

Yeah that was one of the other examples I had in mind when I opened this thread. Are fish tacos a sacred symbol, an unalienable cultural property of all Hispanics?

I gotta come way down on the negative side on that one, and I really can't believe that any community allowed that to happen.

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-aaaand that's how it fits.  A person who, from her own account of the situation...comes from an oppresive or colonial culture...who has appropriated the cultural items and paraphernalia of another, victim culture....minimizing their actual contribution to that and referring instead to -her- experience of "being black".

That abcd question is still hanging in the wind.......

Yeah I think she actually ended up as head of the NAACP, and this article says she once sued a mostly-black school for discrimination!  Man. . . she's just too good to be true!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-naacp...-find-job/